In Heartbreaking House Testimony, Overdose Victim’s Mother Blames Mayorkas’ ‘Wide-Open Border Policy’ For Daughter’s Death

A heartbroken mother gave wrenching testimony Thursday during the House impeachment inquiry into DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, saying, “Mr. Mayorkas’ border policy is partially responsible for my daughter’s death.”

Josephine Dunn’s daughter died at 26 after mistakenly ingesting fentanyl that she thought was oxycodone. Thursday would have been her 29th birthday.

“In my humble opinion, Mr. Mayorkas’ border policy is partially responsible for my daughter’s death. His wide-open border policy allows massive quantities of poisonous fentanyl into our country,” Dunn said. She continued:

I personally feel Mr. Mayorkas is responsible for opening that border to allow more than 10 million illegal border crossings since February 2021, which supports most of the illegal fentanyl into this country. This weapon of mass destruction has killed over 100,000 Americans on our soil for two years in a row.

Under Secretary Mayorkas’ leadership, or lack thereof, fentanyl is an invasion. The weapon of mass destruction has caused unimaginable numbers of deaths, unmeasurable damage to our country’s families, including my own. My family is broken. My heart is broken. And he couldn’t even be here to face me today. Whatever he’s doing that is more important than facing me today — I don’t know what that could be.

Dunn closed out her testimony by saying, “Our country deserves a secure border. Our country deserves to feel safe. Our country deserves to be free of fentanyl. We need to close the fentanyl super-highway. We need to close the border.”

House Republicans filed articles of impeachment against Mayorkas one year ago. In the document, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) accused Mayorkas of “high crimes and misdemeanors” in his role as DHS secretary.

“Secretary Mayorkas’s potential impeachment is not an accident,” Fallon said at the time. “He has willfully abdicated his duties as Secretary of Homeland Security and actively misled Congress and the American people. To make any progress at our southern border, he must go.”

Mayorkas has pledged to continue his work in the midst of the hearings.

Watch the clip above via CSPAN.